IT Project Coordinator Intern

CHS Inc. is a leading global agribusiness owned by farmers, ranchers and cooperatives across the United States that provides grain, food and energy resources to businesses and consumers around the world. We serve agriculture customers and consumers across the United States and around the world. Most of our employees are in the United States, but today we have employees in 19 countries. At CHS, we are creating connections to empower agriculture.

Summary

Through an internship with CHS, you'll contribute to meaningful projects that support agriculture, strengthen communities, and help advance a global business. Our paid internship program offers an opportunity to build practical skills, grow your leadership capabilities, and see how your ideas can make an impact. You'll work alongside experienced professionals and connect with mentors, industry experts and senior leaders, while gaining career insights, building relationships and exploring how CHS businesses work together to empower agriculture.

CHS is hiring an IT Project Coordinator Intern for Summer 2027! This hands-on internship provides an opportunity to work alongside IT project and portfolio management professionals while supporting initiatives across the organization. The intern will gain exposure to project planning, communications, financial tracking, and workshop coordination in a collaborative, professional environment.

This role is ideal for a detail-oriented, organized communicator who is interested in learning how IT projects and technology portfolios are managed. The internship also offers opportunities to shadow enterprise architects, project managers, portfolio managers, and scrum masters to explore potential career paths in technology and project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Assist project and portfolio managers with day-to-day coordination activities.
• Support the scheduling, preparation, and coordination of project workshops, meetings, and related materials.
• Assist with project communications, including meeting notes, status updates, stakeholder communications, and action-item tracking.
• Help maintain project plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and deliverables.
• Support time and budget tracking by gathering, organizing, and reporting project-related information.
• Assist with documentation and data-driven reporting to ensure information is accurate, timely, and accessible to project stakeholders.
• Collaborate with project teams and business partners to support effective information flow and project execution.
• Shadow enterprise architects, project managers, portfolio managers, and scrum masters to broaden knowledge of project delivery roles and career opportunities.
• Provide professional, responsive support to internal stakeholders.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications (required)

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's degree program in Business, Project Management, STEM, Communications, or a related field.

Additional Qualifications

• Interest in project management, portfolio management, agile delivery, enterprise architecture, or business technology.
• Experience coordinating meetings, events, projects, or team activities through coursework, student organizations, volunteer work, or previous employment.
• Familiarity with project-management concepts, including schedules, milestones, budgets, risks, and status reporting.
• Experience with collaboration or work-management tools such as Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Microsoft Project, Azure Dev Ops, Jira, or similar platforms.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven approach to decisions.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Works well and collaboratively with others
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks, prioritize work, and meet deadlines.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.

CHS offers a competitive total rewards package. Compensation includes base wage and, depending upon position, may include other earnings such as bonus, incentives and commissions. Actual pay offered will vary based on multiple factors which may include, without limitation, experience, education, training, specialized skills and certifications, minimum wage/salary requirements under local law.

If eligibility requirements are met, you may participate in 401(k).

CHS is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disability.

Please note that any communication from a CHS recruiter would be sent using a chsinc.com email address. In addition, a CHS recruiter will not ask for confidential information over the phone or in an email, or request money from a candidate involved in an offer process. If you have questions regarding an employment opportunity, please reach out to chscareers@chsinc.com; to verify that the communication is from CHS.